Beschreibung:
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is Lecturer in Social Medicine, Harvard University and Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Boston University. James Schmidt is Professor of History and Political Science at Boston University.
The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work in the philosophy of history.
Introduction: history as philosophy Amélie Rorty and James Schmidt; Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim Immanuel Kant; 1. Teleology and history in Kant Henry E. Allison; 2. The purposive development of human capacities Karl Ameriks; 3. Reason as a species characteristic Manfred Kuehn; 4. Good out of evil: Kant and the idea of unsocial sociability Jerome Schneewind; 5. The unsociable sociability of human nature Allen Wood; 6. The crooked timber of mankind Paul Guyer; 7. A habitat for humanity Barbara Herman; 8. Cosmopolitanism and the final end of history Pauline Kleingeld; 9. The hidden plan of nature Eckart Förster; 10. Providence as progress: Kant's variations on a tale of origins Genevieve Lloyd; 11. Norms, facts, and the philosophy of history Terry Pinkard; 12. Philosophy helps history Rüdiger Bittner; Bibliography; Index of names and works.